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Quest for HarmonyThe Moso Traditions of Sexual Union and Family Life.$
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Quest for Harmony: The Moso Traditions of Sexual Union and Family Life.

Chuan-kang Shih

Print publication date: 2009

Print ISBN-13: 9780804761994

Published to Stanford Scholarship Online: June 2013

DOI: 10.11126/stanford/9780804761994.001.0001

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Introduction

Introduction

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(p.1) Introduction
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Quest for Harmony
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Stanford University Press
DOI:10.11126/stanford/9780804761994.003.0001

This chapter provides a background to the main topics of the book. The book aims to offer a comprehensive ethnography of the Moso traditions with sexual union and family life at their center. It also includes the Moso social institutions, cultural norms, idioms, beliefs, legends, and behavioral customs that existed long before the watershed of 1956 and have continued with modifications up to this day. This chapter analyzes the intellectual pedigree and theoretical relevance of Moso studies, the entry into anthropology and the Moso case, experiences and methods of fieldwork, and the roadmap of this book.

Keywords:   sexual union, family life, ethnography, cultural norms

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